[Wolves] Wolves LUG Open Evening / Charities

Mon Sep 16 22:17:03 2002

I am a Linux zealot, whatever I come across as.

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From: wolves-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:wolves-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Jono Bacon
Sent: 16 September 2002 13:01
To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Wolves LUG Open Evening / Charities

--- Aquarius <aquarius-lists@kryogenix.org> wrote:
> This would combine quite neatly with Mark's great
> achievement, assuming
> that he'd be happy to host this kind of event,
> because it wouldn't just
> be talk; we could instead point and say, look, here
> is an installed
> base of Linux boxes; people could ask questions of
> Mark and whatnot.
> 
> Might be useful for both charities and schools --
> approach them both as
> sets of users who are looking to provide IT services
> while not having
> enormous corporate budgets?

Sounds spot on to me. The other benefit of this is
that MArk comes across not as a Linux zealot, but
someone who wants to implement Linux in their
environment. I think this element will also fuel
others' interests to do the same.

We just need to hear what the main man thinks of the
idea.

        Jono

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Jono Bacon - [vmlinuz] - jonoATkdeDOTorg
KDE Developer - Diary: http://www.advogato.org/person/jono/

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